Every patient entering and receiving care at a health care facility licensed by the board for licensing health care facilities has the expectation of and right to privacy for care received at such facility.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-11-1502
Rights to privacy
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Billy Overstreet v. TRW Commercial Steering Division (2008)
Most recently applied in Deborah Bray v. Radwan R. Khuri, M.D. (July 2017)
Acts 1996, ch. 873, § 3.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.